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arxiv: 0908.4091 · v3 · pith:LUZV6G5Rnew · submitted 2009-08-27 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO

Star Cluster Candidates in M81

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We present a catalog of extended objects in the vicinity of M81 based a set of 24 Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) Wide Field Camera (WFC) F814W (I-band) images. We have found 233 good globular cluster candidates; 92 candidate HII regions, OB associations, or diffuse open clusters; 489 probable background galaxies; and 1719 unclassified objects. We have color data from ground-based g- and r-band MMT Megacam images for 79 galaxies, 125 globular cluster candidates, 7 HII regions, and 184 unclassified objects. The color-color diagram of globular cluster candidates shows that most fall into the range 0.25 < g-r < 1.25 and 0.5 < r-I < 1.25, similar to the color range of Milky Way globular clusters. Unclassified objects are often blue, suggesting that many of them are likely to be HII regions and open clusters, although a few galaxies and globular clusters may be among them.

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